SP Hazaribagh Anoop Birthare called a meeting of bank officials of different banks operating in Hazaribagh district here on Friday and asked them to install CCTV cameras in their premises. The SP also gave various instructions to the bank officials in order to minimise the increasing crimes inside and outside the banks and ATMs.
Talking with bank officials SP said that after our repeated requests many banks have installed CCTV cameras in their banks but most of them are of inferior quality because in many cases we have found that the pictures recorded are not clear enough to identify the person involved in the crime. He also said that the cameras installed outside the banks are not capable to show the registration numbers of the vehicles parked there. He advised them all to install quality CCTV cameras both inside and outside the branches which can help the police in nabbing the criminals.
In this meeting Birthare also advised the bank officials to make time to time checkup of their smoke detectors, alarm bells, CCTV cameras and the arms of the security guards so that it can be used at time. Regarding recruitment of security guards he advised to take services of trained security guards.
He also advised to fix some posters both inside and outside the bank having important phone numbers like of nearest police stations, police control room, the beat in-charge of their bank area, senior police officials so that anyone can pass the message to them at the time of emergency.
The SP advised the bank officials to keep special eye on senior citizens and women, who come to the branches for their money transaction. It has been found that these people are easily targeted by the criminals. He also advised the bank officials to make these customers aware about the modus operandi of the criminals and frauds and the guards of the ATM to remain vigilant when such people arrive.
In this meeting Birthare gave altogether 23 advises, suggestions and directions to the bank officials with a hop that they will act accordingly and will help them in checking the crime inside and outside bank branches.
In this meeting DSP Chandan Vats, officer in-charge of sadar police station Awdhesh Kumar Singh and officer in-charge of Bara Bazar TOP Nathuni Prasad Yadav was also present.